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voyage out and back were many pairs of Puffins, which seemed to be 

 making their way in couples to their nesting haunts, and a Tree-Pipit, 

 which came on board in the middle of the bay half-way between Finisterre 

 and Ushant on April 23rd. The sea was calm ; the wind light, and from 

 the north-east. The bird flew some way alongside of the ship before 

 alighting in a ruffled, but not exhausted, state. In the English Channel 

 small parties of Swallows were flying across, near above the water, and with 

 great speed. — Harold Russell (16, Beaufort Gardens, S.W.). 



With the Birds in May, 1901. — I can but very seldom take a holiday 

 in May, but this year I was enabled to be absent from home for the month, 

 and spent most of my spare time in observing the birds in and near the 

 places I visited. 



London and its Vicinity. — Here I visited some of the localities men- 

 tioned by Mr. Swan in his 'Birds of Loudon ' as likely to be fruitful, and 

 found that Hadley Woods and Richmond Park were admirable hunting- 

 grounds for the ornithologist. 



Hadley Woods, between New Barnet and High Barnet, are 11|- miles 

 from King's Cross, and in this delightful resort I found the Nightingale, 

 Blackcap, Garden-Warbler, Willow- Warbler, ChifFchaff, Greater and Lesser 

 Whitethroats, Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, Green Woodpecker, Long- 

 tailed Tit, and many other birds less worthy of notice. Nightingales, 

 Blackcaps, and Lesser Whitethroats were exceptionally numerous. I 

 should think that nearly all our summer birds could be found in these 

 delightful woods. 



Wanstead Park and lakes will well repay a visit, and there too I heard 

 the " three feathered kings of song " — the Nightingale, Blackcap, and 

 Garden-Warblers ; but the avifauna was not so rich as that of Hadley 

 Woods. 



At Richmond Park, I noted, in about three hours, thirty-four species, 

 including Nightingale, Blackcap, Garden-Warbler, Wood- Warbler, Red- 

 start, and Ray's Wagtail. This highly favoured locality will always repay 

 a visit from the bird-lover, and, indeed, from any lover of nature. Windsor 

 Castle was again plainly visible in the far distance. 



My next visit was to that most delightful of all health resorts, Bourne- 

 mouth, and there I found the lovely Talbot Woods full of bird-life. I 

 have never heard the song, or rather songs, of the Wood- Warbler to such 

 perfection as there. The Tree-Pipit also was much in evidence, and, what 

 was very strange, I heard there a Chaffinch, which, after its three pre- 

 fatory notes " fritz fritz fritz," sang the Willow- Warbler's song, and not 

 its own. 



At Christchurch, live miles from Bournemouth, I found many birds in 

 a pleasant row down the River Stour towards Hengistbury Head. My list • 



